Stafford Gateway Masterplan.

Thehooperman

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Slight flaw in the LCR planning.....
"Stafford Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council and Network Rail are working with regeneration specialist LCR on the scheme, which aims to help the area capitalise on the town’s railway station’s position on the HS2 line".

We're not actually on the HS2 line but if everyone keeps quiet they may just develop something on that side of the station before they realise, shhhhh.
 

The Hawk

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Slight flaw in the LCR planning.....
"Stafford Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council and Network Rail are working with regeneration specialist LCR on the scheme, which aims to help the area capitalise on the town’s railway station’s position on the HS2 line".

We're not actually on the HS2 line but if everyone keeps quiet they may just develop something on that side of the station before they realise, shhhhh.
But Stafford is getting a high speed service.
 

Thehooperman

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But Stafford is getting a high speed service.

If they ever build the link at Handsacre junction and work out how to signal ETCS trains over conventional signalling!!!

I hope it happens but I can't see the demand to justify making it work from an engineering perspective.

More likely we can wave at the fast trains from Sandon bank for a while.
 

Gramaisc

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If they ever build the link at Handsacre junction and work out how to signal ETCS trains over conventional signalling!!!

I hope it happens but I can't see the demand to justify making it work from an engineering perspective.

More likely we can wave at the fast trains from Sandon bank for a while.
Some of us are still waiting for the Eurostar services to arrive.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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Looking at the artists's impression on the Express & Star page, I presume road access to the site must be 'round the back' from the Castlefields/Kingsway roundabout, using the new Western Access Route. Probably leading to more traffic going over the Newport Road railway bridge, which is just missed off the bottom of picture.
Depends what they do with the multi storey car park as well.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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Some of the HS2 trains will be hybrids. They will be able to run on both normal lines & the HS2 line. HS2 will link with the West Coast Main Line at Handsacre.
Yep..
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YorkshirePud

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